The Alpha Shifter

Chapter 12 - Leo

It was later in the evening, after cleaning and helping put the pups to bed that I walked into my room exhausted and ready to fall asleep. That's when I saw my two best friends perched on my bed with bright smiles and junk food surrounding them. I guess Tessa really was going to make us have another movie night like we used to have when we were only pups.

"Don't give us that look, you know you want to join us." Tessa exclaimed, while Alexander patted the space in-between the two. Shaking my head, I closed the door and took a running jump and leaped onto the bed face first, aiming to land in-between the two. That however didn't work, when I heard a high pitch screech and a low groan coming from wither side of me when I made contract with their bodies. Funnily enough, the high pitch noise came from Alexander, and the deep groan from Tessa. I couldn't help but laugh at them, as I rolled around and made myself conformable.

"So, what are we watching?" I asked, while reaching for a packet of Oreos. "It's apparently a surprise." Alex replied rolling his eyes, just as Tessa jumped down from the bed and retrieved the remote while grabbing a few extra blankets for us. "Don't worry, you'll love it!" Tessa spoke wickedly. Turning to Alex with a questioning glance, he nearly shrugged and stole an Oreo out of my hand, to eat for himself. With a low growl I glared at Alex. No one stole my Oreos.

"In honour of our gay best friend Alex, I thought we could watch something with Jake Gyllenhaal, and for you Leo, it's also a boxing movie so you'll love it. And as for me, it has a shirtless hot guy, so the same reason for Alex really." Tessa sounded proud of herself as she turned the T.V on for the screen to display the title of "Southpaw". Bubbling with excitement Tessa climbed back into the bed and hit the play button, while snuggling in close to also steal my Oreos.

Although Tessa stole my Oreo, I couldn't help but smile at her instead of being mad. She always did the simplest things to make sure that we would all be happy. She could have easily chosen a random movie to watch, but she put so much thought into choosing the perfect movie that we would all enjoy equally. Offering Alexander an Oreo, I pulled the blanket up higher and stretched my legs out getting into a comfortable position to watch the movie in.

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I didn't remember falling asleep, but when I woke up it was because I was close to boiling with two people using me as a giant teddy bear. On either side of myself, my two best friends were using my chest as a pillow and hugging themselves to me. As gently as I could I rolled Tessa onto her other side where she proceeded to grab hold of another pillow and cuddle into that one. Tessa was the easy one. The real challenged was dealing with Alexander, who still clung to me like a baby monkey.

I pulled the pillow from beneath my head and gently lifted one of Alex's hands and tried to put it on the pillow instead of myself. My plan was short lived when he held onto the pillow, and me. Sighing, I gently started to shake him until he was half awake. When he started lifting his head, I sat up and quickly put the pillow back down. "Shhh A, go back to sleep." I muted while stroking his hair away from his face. Sleepily nodding to me, Alex latched onto the pillow and pulled it tight against his body and fell back to sleep in a matter of seconds. Sitting up in the middle of the bed, I started to make my way towards the end of the bed, trying not to make too many noises, and not trying to move the bed in a way that would wake up the two animals. They were not the type of people you wanted to wake up in the morning, unless you wanted a few bruises.

Finally reaching the end of the bed, I stood up and stretched, hearing my back crack a few times. Looking towards my bed side table, my clock read 3:00 AM. The apparent devils hour. Opening the door I silently made my way through the house, hearing various snores, and luckily no other sounds. Making way to the back door, I stopped to pull on some shoes as well as a jumper before stepping out into the chilled backyard and looking out into the open forest, deciding to go for a walk.

Many people thought I was crazy, due to my lack of sleep and love for the night life. I just found something so peaceful in being able to walk around when the world was still and sleeping. It was almost like I was alone, and in control of everything that happened, because no one else was around to judge me or get in my way.

Almost without my control, my legs started moving towards the forest. Partly shifting my eyes I was able to see everything, almost like it was day time, one of the many perks of being a wolf.

Stepping over fallen logs, and ducking under low hanging tree branches, I made my way into a clearing I haven't been to before. Finally taking note of my surroundings, I noticed that I was near the newly discovered shifter territory.

I felt almost drawn to this place, like there was a certain pull towards it, begging my to come closer and closer. Walking in the direction I was being pulled to, I found a small lake with multiple different rocks and trees all around it.

There was nothing notably different with this place, however my wolf and myself felt at ease and complete here. Finding a rock to sit on, I looked towards the clear night sky basking in this feeling of wholeness, wondering why I was feeling this way.

Then and there I decided that this was my new favourite place to come on nights like this. The stillness of the water and the clear sky, was so peaceful and calming. Something I needed in my life when not being The Big Bad Alpha everyone thought I was.

Little did I know, that in the following nights to come, I would spend hours in my little clearing in the forest that no one knew about. And each night the need to be here only increased until I thought something was wrong, because the pull to be here was getting stronger each day, it was almost the same feeling I had, with the girl I bumped into when in town.

The same girl who had ice blue eyes, the same colour as that of the lake.

I needed to go back into town to find her.

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